John Laubscher talked about a feature in emails that allows the user to identify emails by color.  This is especially good if you want to identify emails from families.  When you ask for email  it will download the individual pieces with designated senders color coded to your specifications for easy spotting.  We did it.
See http://www.seniorcenter.net/netlearnernews/archives03/srspg3_07_273.html  Go to the Technical Section and find the article called Color Coding Email for the How-To-Dos for the two email browsers.  We never went over this in class before.  It is a good tip.

Bill Myers suggested that you can have your printer settings be saved so that you can choose a printer icon that has special settings for printing pictures or whatever.  And you can have a printer icon identified with preferences for printing draft, etc.   Nice trick, good tip.  Then it is a matter of choosing which printer setup you want to use before you print.  Maybe more about this procedure later on.
We will be a smaller group next week.  A whole bunch of our users will be Granging at Centre Hall, others will be in Maine and other parts unknown.  We will loose Janet Shields until next summer to her school teaching duties.  So this session coming up will be a good time for any attendees to bring their special problems, the ones you think no one else cares about.

SPECIAL NOTE:Watch for all your Clinton County friends at the Grange Fair.  There is a Web Cam focused on the midway.   If you attend the fair be sure to wave to us this Wednesday morning at 9:00 am and again at 10:00 am.  We will have you up and running during the User Class.  http://grangefair.net/

Oh, the treats! They exceeded the usual level of "Excellence"!   Wayne Smith gave us a rerun (fresh batch though) of his mother's famous "Pickle Slop".  That doesn't sound good but it actually it is an exceptional smooth cuke recipe with No Burps.  Peg Masden made a terrific tall cake smothered with a sweet medley of fruits for the icing.  There were peaches and kiwi and other flavors mixed.  Katie Carr brought some very tasty chocolate covered cookies and Roberta Muthler cha-chaed in with a delicious south of the border banana cake without the peels. 
Yes! Dine-o-mite food and information made for another good Wednesday gathering.

The worm that was sent out last week was not in e-mail and could infect anyone who had Windows 2000, NT, or XP. - anyone that is, that had not updated (patched) their Windows Operating System.  That was the one that shut down your computer with a warning that you had 59 seconds to save your work.  The worm was replicated and sent back out to anyone who had the security hole in Windows.  Again, this was not in an e-mail.  

By this past Monday, we were down to 68 e-mail viruses refused by our server in a 24-hour period.  These are viruses that came to KCnet from what we call the “Outside.”  In other words, viruses that are sent to a KCnet member from a non-KCnet member get stopped at the entrance to the server (the router).  However, an e-mail virus sent from a KCnet member to a KCnet member goes directly to the mail server and never goes through the virus checker.  That is why you may notice your mail coming in sooner, time-wise, from a member than from a non-member.  It’s not stopped and scanned for virus. That is also why you can get a virus from a KCnet member and why Mike Foust keeps drilling on “keep your anti-virus programs updated.”

On Tuesday, new viruses hit and our anti-virus program rejected 2,406; Friday in just 10 hours it was 2,347 and in a 24-hour period ending at 4 PM Thursday, KCnet’s server rejected over 58,000 viruses.  That’s 58,000 viruses that our members DID NOT get into their computers, but there are still many KCnet members with viruses on their computers somehow; they multiply and spread throughout the members.  Thursday, while working with our members, Network Administrator Rob Harrington likened it to “aiming at a very fast moving target.”  The end result is all that extra rejecting affects our speed.  Too many hits can bring the best equipment to a crawl and even no movement. 

Rob has installed a program that will help us identify the source of a virus within the KCnet membership.  If you suspect you may be sending or receiving viruses from a KCnet member, please call.  We can help eliminate the virus and/or relieve your worries.

On quite another subject, watch next week’s “Shopper” for a few pictures of the ribbon cutting.

Ray McGill, owner of Nittany Travel, is the President of KCnet; William Raco is Vice-President; Judy Yoho is Secretary and Donald C. Miller of North Bend is Treasurer.  Other members of the board are Fred Bierly, Donna Gebhardt Lannan, Earl Keen, R. Keith  Kelly, Amy Lapriola, Paddy O’Hara-Mays, Bob Rolley, Rick Vilello, and Dave Winkleman.